Sunday, November 25, 2012

Top Secret Mission Costa Rica, AfterSchool Link Party

My sister in law's kids used to receive Highlights Top Secret Adventures, but have since outgrown it. She had two packs that they never opened and handed them down to us this week. We opened the one about Costa Rica first.

Little J gets Highlights, but I'd never heard of the Top Secret Adventures. It's a kit that helps teach kids about different countries while sending them on a fun hunt to solve a "who done it" mystery.

It came with a puzzle, picture cards of suspects, a fun adventure puzzle book, and a nice paperback book of the country. The kit is meant for kids 7-12. Sassyfras and Juiciness are 4 and not yet reading, but were able to participate and enjoy the kit with our help. We're still working through the activity book to solve the mystery...I don't think it's not something most kids will do in one sitting.

Overall, I would say my kids are really enjoying the kit. We may try to do a few more lessons with the kit to extend our learning about Costa Rica. How was your after school week?

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Katie loved doing those when she was little, but I could never get the boys interested. I bet Quentin would like them, now that I think of it, though. They are really cute, and teach a fair amount of information.

Hi! I'm Kelly and my wonderful husband of 14 years and I have a 11 year old boy and boy/girl 7 year old twins. For this blog's purposes Dr. Wonderful is my husband, Little J is our 11 year old son, Juiciness is our 7 year old son, and his twin sister is Sassyfras- who has gone above and beyond to earn her nickname. I hope you will enjoy reading about our days.

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